Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2001/01

From: Margy Houtz <dhoutz@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 13 Jan 2001 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2828
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:32:08 -0500

>> @-----.org =====
>>> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've no luck identifying the
> violin-like,
>>> bowed-string instrument with a horn-shaped resonator instead of an
> hourglass
>>> soundbox with f-holes. The on-screen time consisted of only two very
> quick
>>> cuts of a society orchestra. Can any one help? Never saw anything like
> it
>>> before.
>>>
>>> Don Gross
>>> La Canada, California
>>>
The instrument you describe is a "Trumpet Violin" I have seen them in
Romania and Hungary. They are used by the Gypsys and others. You can buy
them, and see them in the catalogue of Lark in the Morning:
www.catalog:http://www.larkinam.com along with a lot of other
interesting, international stuff.

Dave Houtz
Los Olivos, California

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